Ambient backscatter communications: A contemporary survey

N Van Huynh, DT Hoang, X Lu, D Niyato… - … surveys & tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, ambient backscatter communication has been introduced as a cutting-edge
technology which enables smart devices to communicate by utilizing ambient radio …

Backscatter wireless communications and sensing in green Internet of Things

US Toro, K Wu, VCM Leung - IEEE Transactions on Green …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Internet of Things (IoT) is a key technology for enabling ubiquitous applications that
interconnect with cyber-physical systems in various environments. However, its large scale …

Backfi: High throughput wifi backscatter

D Bharadia, KR Joshi, M Kotaru, S Katti - ACM SIGCOMM Computer …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
We present BackFi, a novel communication system that enables high throughput, long range
communication between very low power backscatter devices and WiFi APs using ambient …

Hitchhike: Practical backscatter using commodity wifi

P Zhang, D Bharadia, K Joshi, S Katti - … of the 14th ACM conference on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We present HitchHike, a low power backscatter system that can be deployed entirely using
commodity WiFi infrastructure. With HitchHike, a low power tag reflects existing 802.11 b …

Enabling practical backscatter communication for on-body sensors

P Zhang, M Rostami, P Hu, D Ganesan - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we look at making backscatter practical for ultra-low power on-body sensors by
leveraging radios on existing smartphones and wearables (eg WiFi and Bluetooth). The …

Freerider: Backscatter communication using commodity radios

P Zhang, C Josephson, D Bharadia… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We introduce the design and implementation of FreeRider, the first system that enables
backscatter communication with multiple commodity radios, such as 802.11 g/n WiFi …

Battery-free cellphone

V Talla, B Kellogg, S Gollakota, JR Smith - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We present the first battery-free cellphone design that consumes only a few micro-watts of
power. Our design can sense speech, actuate the earphones, and switch between uplink …

LoRea: A backscatter architecture that achieves a long communication range

A Varshney, O Harms, C Pérez-Penichet… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
There is the long-standing assumption that radio communication in the range of hundreds of
meters needs to consume mWs of power at the transmitting device. In this paper, we …

{SyncScatter}: Enabling {WiFi} like synchronization and range for {WiFi} backscatter Communication

M Dunna, M Meng, PH Wang, C Zhang… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2021 - usenix.org
WiFi backscattering can enable direct connectivity of IoT devices with commodity WiFi
hardware at low power. However, most existing work in this area has overlooked the …

Laissez-faire: Fully asymmetric backscatter communication

P Hu, P Zhang, D Ganesan - ACM SIGCOMM computer communication …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Backscatter provides dual-benefits of energy harvesting and low-power communication,
making it attractive to a broad class of wireless sensors. But the design of a protocol that …